Port of Maó

Port Maó is not, strictly speaking, an essay, nor a history book, nor a guidebook, but rather a kind of walk that, in rich narrative prose, Josep M. Quintana invites us to take through this port, on whose shores he has lived for more than forty years.

The author aims to show the reader this splendid geographical location through his eyes and those of the writers and researchers who have described it, who have written literature on it, or who have spoken about it throughout history.

Reading the book invites the reader to wander, on foot, by boat, or simply in their imagination, to help them understand many of the aspects of this port, one of the most notable in the Mediterranean: geological, historical, political, commercial and economic, literary, artistic, touristic, and leisure.

It is therefore presented here an original work unlike any published to date and which, complemented by abundant graphic information from the past and present, will be of interest to the general public and become a reference work in the future.

The port that justifies a city and its history.